In order to celebrate their 40,000 followers well known twitter site and frequent source of great art Pixel Dailies host a week-long collaborative theme where you have to pixel a portrait of yourself to be in their yearbook!

Mega Cat Studios is an independent development team, for homebrew development in console like Sega Genesis/Mega Drive, Super NES and NES.
The development team has just launched its new project: Little Medusa available for NES.

I was involved in the beginning of the development, to create the first sprite, concept art and story board and will soon upload all the assets of the game in my gallery.You can download a Demo of the game, but you need an NES emulator to play.

We're going to try a new kind of compo here at PJ. There will be participation awards for everyone involved so be sure to take part!

This teamwork compo works as following:
Everyone has a bit over two weeks to submit line art, or any image which uses only 2 colors (which matches the image requirements and theme). The day after the first submission deadline you will receive a message containing line art from another random participant, you will have 3 weeks to finish this other persons work into a colored pixel art.

After the competition is over, non-part taking PJ mods and selected judges will look at the end results and select a top 3. Both the submitter of the line art and the submitter of the final result will receive trophies, so you can win twice! Everyone who submits both a line art and a colored artwork will receive an award.

The Curious Expedition has released the game’s content for free on GitHub.

This includes all the image files of the game, which is often praised for its unique and beautiful pixelart.

This decision is accompanying the release of full modding support, including Steam Workshop integration. With the available image and script files, remixing and creating new content for The Curious Expedition should be as smooth as possible. This offers a unique insight into the development tools and design of a procedural game.

This year's LowRez game jam is starting soon! Developers and Artist will have two weeks to make a full game in a 64x64 pixel window starting July 31st.. You can work in teams or solo. Check out the links below for more information.

Pixeljoint is holding another palette competition which is open to everyone and is quite simple.
Submit your 22 color unique + original color palette.
The winning palette will be used in PJs next ISOcollab, and an additional palette will be chosen to be used in a side collab.
Add a rare trophy to your profile.

Recently we've released our game Pocket Kingdom on which we worked for more than 1.5 years (it started on end of spring 2015). Some of you guys should already know about that game, as Winged Doom (or 08--n7.r6-79.84) posted several location mockups from the game on PJ.

New event happening on facebook and twitter called #octobit It's like inktober (drawings), only pixel art-themed this time. Make pixels and tag them with #octobit and boom, mass pixel art madness!. Found by Volrak_Rutra

Using the a3um's 20-color palette, the community made their own version of Pixelation collab. You can see it complete here. Special thanks to 1Eni1, who made a fancy interactive version with all the names.

A short while ago Edge has released a 212 page special called "The Art of The Pixel" which features 24 contemporary pixel artists such as Junkboy, jalonso, huZba, cocefi, Gary Lucken, Johan Vinet, and ptoing. There is a page of info on each artist where they answered questions regarding pixelart as well as images from popular oldschool pixel games interspersed throughout the magazine.

You can either see if you can pick it up at a local store or order it online at:

Iceberg started a little campaign offering other pixel artists and game developers promote their products or themselves through physical adverts in our game, Retro Highway.
Details can be found at TIG HERE. PJ Forum thread HERE

Check out this cool program (Paint of Persia (get it? (get it!?))) for rotoscoping into pixel art.
This app reates great hybrid pixelart and for someone needing to generate game assets can be very useful.

prowler ran a kickstarter project for a pixel art book (includes some Pixeljoint members), which succeeded with great feedback. The Masters of Pixel Art book series was created as a celebration to the pixels, presenting a selection of the very best in pixel art in an exclusive production. Volume 1 is now available for sale HERE

Now with a 10% discount until the 27th of June!use the code: nicepixel

Well-known PJer FrankieSmileShow has launched his very own Frankie's Casual Pixel Shack where you learn how to turn screenshots from classic 8-bit or 16-bit games into something new without compromising their existing style. A fantastic way to get into the essentials of pixel art.

You can watch the show on his Twitch stream Friday nights at 8 PM EST.

Phyersoft is trying to raise the funds to reach MomoCon in Atlanta this May 26th to 29th to show off Barricade. We've been working hard at this game but lack the expenses to make it. Any little that you can offer would greatly help. Otherwise we'd appreciate it if you could get the word out.

Pixel Trinity
Pixeljoint has a new comp open to all PJers with an interest in opening a store for your game-art pixels. Sprites, assets, tiles, fonts, GUI, BGs, music, FX, etc.Make extra $$$ from your pixelart.

Prizes2 Grand Prizes that include a copy of Construct2 (US$129)
a Scirra Store Account (US$25) and a trophy on your profile20 Scirra Store Accounts for the runner ups (US$25)

A pixel music video for the song Pac-Man Remix by Take (Fumitake Igarashi) just hit the shelves! Made by actual real life members of our hallowed PixelJoint oasis, it features art and animation of director Mike Scott (known here as Mikdog) and his stalwart human manservant Argyle (his chewed-up nametag reads "Carl Douglas").

Press coverage for Locomalito's latest release here. Locomalito has been developing freeware 'new old video games' in his spare time for the past 8 years and has quite a collection of high quality original pixel art titles that you can download for free here.

So Final Fantasy VI -- a beloved classic that contends with Final Fantasy VII for the title of best Final Fantasy game of all time -- is releasing on Steam this Wednesday. This game is the crown jewel of the SNES era of JRPG's and deserves the utmost care and respect.

Pop Nebula Dreamer is a comedy adventure about 3 hamster bunnies that have become mixed up in a final boss's conquest to control the island of starpom, and the remaining people who foolishly challenge his might.